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Here are a couple that bring back memories. Gotta love those old commercials.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSQQo5S5yd0

For some reason my Evil Knievel motorcycle never performed quite like the one in the commercial below, but I still enjoyed it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an8eejlhadk

Mattel made some great stuff.
I remember this one around the house.

I had the evil knievel bike. Mine came with that wind up base and also a "ripcord"

That thing rocked.

It beat the hell out of "light brite" I'll tell ya that much.

Mine was about a foot long piece of bamboo. Depending on the day, it was a sword, a rifle, a guitar or a spear.

I used to also think that an empty cardboard box was great fun.

Brian.

true, the boxes that toys came in were usually funner than the toys themself.

Hard to beat a decent sized cardboard box and a carpeted set of stairs to slide down inside the box.

I loved my Erector Set (that's Erector).

Daisy Red Ryder and a red wagon filled with Tonka trucks, 5 yrs. old and workin for BB's LOL

Gunner

My fishin' pole and bicycle. Then it was off to "the peninsula" (Presque Isle) to fish...

A magnifying glass

Outside: my toy tractors and farm equipment with which I kept the garden torn up. (Dirt is so much better than sand!)

Inside: my toy soliers and rubber-band guns.

I can't remember that far back!

The original version of the Erector Set..

I remember a fun one but not certain of the name. Seems it was "ssp" or some such. Maybe "sst" ???

Anyway, a dragster looking car with a weighted wheel in the center and a T-handled zip strip. The zip strip was a rack and pinion type of affair, the harder you pulled it the faster the car went. That thing would go about 2 blocks down the street. Mine finally self destructed on the curb.

We were so poor all I had to play with was my peter.

A fickle playmate at best - annoy him enough and he eventually spits at you.

Wondered when somebody was gonna say that....ya beat me to it!


maddog

TFF!!!!!

We were so poor we couldn't afford to pay attention!

Here it is!


I had the "black jack racer".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeLn9D23uMo

Oh man, that brings back the memory of this conversation with my father.

Me: "Dad, do you have any reciepts you don't want anymore?"

Dad: "Yeah, let me just....wait. What do you want them for?"

Me: "I'm going to set them on fire."

Dad: "With what?"

Me: "Grandma's magnifying glass."

Dad: "Don't do that."

Me: "Why?"

Dad: "What did I just say?"

Me: "Awwwww Dad...."

Dad: "Don't awwww Dad me."

Brian.